After I hit the cars with my dad’s van, Chuck pulled the sliding door open and took off running, I opened the driver’s door and started running too, my dad recognized my jacket and started yelling my name. I was wearing a blue jean jacket with a rolling stones patch on the back, my […]
Chapter 9 Age 15
Best laid plans never really work out, and my plans were not going to pan out either. It was about 2 am. In the morning, I had not seen the officer make a round in a few hours, I hit my button to get my door open to go to the bathroom, he didn’t […]
Chapter 8 Aged 15
This was also during the time of the Crack Cocaine epidemic; you could find crack on any corner in the Southwest Detroit area and Ecorse. And at high school we had a lot of gang members and dealers, at some point I became a target for one of the gangs as an easy mark. […]
Chapter 7 Almost 13 to 15
PPP treatment programs, the idea was a good idea, but the execution was not well thought out, so here I will provide a brief explanation of how it worked, it was supposed to be based on positive peer behavior, or lead by example. If you have a problem with someone you were supposed to ask […]
Juvenile Detention Center
St. Francis home for boys
Hawthorn center
Chapter 6 Age 12 to Almost 13
I’m not sure how long it was before I woke up again, but when I did, it was to this guy pulling my pants down, I was on my back and he just got my feet out of my pants legs. He started to climb up into the bed and was touching my legs. I […]
Chapter 5 Age 11 to 12ish
That night, the staff member was in my room all night, he took my clothing and had it in a bag, and my shoes, to keep me from trying to run again, I did not sleep, waiting for a chance to run again, the chance never presented itself. At 6:30 in the morning, it was […]
Chapter 4 Age 10 to almost 11
After I got back home, for a little while I was treated with kid gloves, Debbie didn’t do anything to really piss me off. My dad had a very strange way of dealing with me, almost like he didn’t know how to deal with me, how to make sense of the information he was […]
Chapter 3
We left the children’s psych hospital, I had no idea which way was home, I was just happy to be in the car with my dad, about 25 minutes into the drive I noticed that we were in some very bad neighborhoods, very run-down areas. I saw the welcome to Detroit sign, at this […]
Chapter 2 age 6 to almost 8
This part of my life was very difficult to deal with, a lot of things happened in this time period, that would define the next 22 years of my life. Around 6 years old, my dad started going out on my mom, with a family friend, her name was Cathy. My dad would make excuses […]